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The consultation for the new National Methodist Hymn Collection is available in the Methodist Recorder and on line now. Responses need to be made before the end of January.

CHRISTIAN CONCERNS
By Daphne Barker

The whole world watches as the credit crisis unfolds. Headlines in newspapers, extended news programmes, comment and debate on emergency action and rescue packages send shivers of alarm around the world.

At this particular time may I draw your attention to a Christian charity attempting to help those caught up in a debt-trap with no way out?

ACTION speaks louder than words FOR CHILDREN who need us more than ever.
NCH is the children’s charity of the Methodist Church. It was founded in 1869 by Methodist minister Revd Thomas Bowman Stephenson in response to the poverty and danger faced by vulnerable and destitute children and young people living rough on the streets of London.

hope through action is a charity specifically created to bring about an imaginative and life changing initiative for the young people of South Africa, using sport as a medium not only to develop physical ability but also to communicate positive life skills to assist in coping with difficult realities.

Manchester and Stockport District

The Women's Network is a movement, not an organisation. There is no membership fee and you do not need to "join"> However, you can subscribe to Magnet magazine, which is its main resource and includes up-to-date information on its "Networking Page".

Organised by a small group of willing volunteers, the Festival began as a Millennium Event in 2000. It was a great success, which turned into an annual event. Knutsford Literature Festival is independent of arts boards and large sponsors. It's prices are pitched so that it makes a small profit yet everyone who wants to attend can afford to do so.

The Karibuni Trust is a UK Registered Charity; which aims to raise awareness about the plight of children living on the streets and in the slums of Kenya and to raise money to support projects to meet their needs.

Mow Cop, just over the border in Staffordshire, got its place in history as the site where the Primitive Methodist movement started. The two founders of the movement - Hugh Bourne (1772-1852) and William Clowes (1780-1851) - described the residents of the area as a bunch of godless people as you could not walk the area without physical or verbal assault.

This is a new online Bible Study for daily life. As daily life gets more and more hectic, many find it difficult to make time for the spiritual side of life. Now they can simply log on to www.methodist.org.uk/bible from wherever they happen to be, and access A Word in Time, the Methodist Church's new online daily Bible study.

is a Methodist website (set up under the auspices of the Methodist Church House in London) that explores contemporary issues (news, film, ongoing debate) from a faith-based perspective.

We have regular contributors, with specialism and/or expertise in certain areas, who write articles for the website on a variety of themes from various Christian perspectives. Recent articles include